patch up | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Torepairby adding apatch.I needed topatch upmy trousers after ripping them on the brambles.; (idiomatic,transitive)Tomendquickly.; (idiomatic,figuratively)Torepairrelations; toimproverelations.You need topatch things upwith your sister after that horrible argument.1955February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, inRailway Magazine, page79:But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about topatch uptheir quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.1983,James C. H. Shen, “Signs of Change”, in Robert Myers, editor,The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally‎[1],Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd.,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC, page51:Nixon was very curious about developments on the Chinese mainland. He particularly wanted to know whether the Vice-Premier saw any possibility of Peking and Moscowpatching uptheir feud in the foreseeable future.Chiang Ching-kuoanswered in the negative.; (obsolete,printing)Tooverlay.

Examples:

EN: If they could only patch up a man... as easily as they can a bicycle tire.
ES: Ojalá se pudiera arreglar a un hombre tan fácilmente como a un neumático.
EN: Why, right here in this little Kansas town... there ain't a day people don't pack up and start out... east or west... depending' on how they feel... bringin' their wagons here for me to patch up and mend... load with axle grease.
ES: En este pueblo de Kansas... la gente a diario guarda sus cosas y parte... al este o al oeste... dependiendo de cómo se sienta... y me trae sus carros para arreglárselos y reparárselos... y para que les ponga grasa en el eje.
EN: We believed that disposing of him as we did would cause Miss O'Shaughnessy to stop and think that it would be best to patch up her differences with us regarding the falcon.
ES: Creímos que librándonos de él como lo hicimos... la Srta. O'Shaughnessy se pararía a pensar que tal vez era más conveniente... arreglar sus diferencias con nosotros con respecto al halcón.
EN: Oh, he says I gotta get my ribs plenty of time to patch up.
ES: Mis costillas necesitan tiempo para cicatrizar.
EN: Well, they ain't gonna patch up in this joint.
ES: Aquí no lo harán.
EN: I'll patch up nothing with that pop-eyed spaghetti-bender.
ES: No arreglaré nada con ese comedor de spaghetti de ojos saltones.
EN: To patch up your bungling.
ES: Para arreglar tu metida de pata.
EN: But Uncle Sam always manages to patch up the barrel and we fill it.
ES: Pero el Tío Sam siempre se las apaña para arreglar el barril y lo llenamos.
EN: Look, Boothe. I'm here to patch up drunks and bums with their bellies cut open, or dames with loaded dice and their ribs kicked in. More than that, I can't do.
ES: Oiga, estoy aquí para curar heridas de vagos y borrachos o mujeres tramposas con las costillas rotas.
EN: Clean up this room. And patch up that hole.
ES: Limpia este cuarto y arregla el agujero.
EN: Kept me alive to patch up their casualties.
ES: Me mantuvieron con vida para tapar a los muertos.
EN: Emmett. Emmett, patch up the clowns for a parade.
ES: Emmett, arregla a los payasos para el desfile.
EN: There's nothing like good news to patch up a lover's quarrel.
ES: No hay nada mejor que una buena noticia para que dos enamorados se arreglen.
EN: I said, that patch up there it's rain water.
ES: Decía que esa mancha de ahí es de agua de lluvia.
EN: - Did the kids patch up things?
ES: ¿Lo han arreglado los chicos?

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